Analysis: Goodbye to Just Stop Oil. Or Is It?
Richard Hames
Just Stop Oil has announced it’s hung up the hi-vis. Richard Hames looks back at three years of road-blocking and soup-throwing and ahead to what’s coming next.
Tag: direct action
Report: Climate Activists Get Longest Sentences for Peaceful Protest in British History
Clare Hymer
Just Stop Oil activists have received four and five-year prison sentences after being found guilty of conspiring to block traffic on the M25. Clare Hymer reports.
Report: Damaging Property Justifiable to Save Palestinian Lives, Court Finds
Rivkah Brown
A Leicester court acquitted two Palestine Action activists of criminal damage, accepting that their actions were necessary to save lives and prevent greater property damage in Palestine.
Report: Protesters Block Coach Moving Asylum Seekers, As Resistance to Rwanda Plan Mounts
Charlotte England
Dozens of people blocked a coach in south London to stop it from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm against their will, amid a week of direct action against deportations.
Report: Court Acquits Two Palestine Activists of Targeting Israeli Weapons Company, Leaving Six in Limbo
Rivkah Brown
Two of the six defendants standing trial for targeting Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems were acquitted, while Palestine Action co-founder Richard Barnard was found guilty of criminal damage. Jury indecision means the remaining defendants may be retried in the new year. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: These Pro-Palestine Activists Are on Trial for ‘Blackmail’
Rivkah Brown
On Monday, three members of Palestine Action will be the first political activists to be tried for blackmail in over a decade. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: Extinction Rebellion Has a Whole New Strategy. Will It Work?
Clare Hymer
On New Year’s Eve, Extinction Rebellion hit pause on its tactic of public disruption. But as it prepares for its most ambitious mobilisation yet, will the gamble pay off?
Opinion: Armchair Strategists, the Climate Movement Needs You
Diyora Shadijanova
Comradely criticism of protest strategy is a healthy part of democratic movement building, complaining from the sidelines is not, writes Diyora Shadijanova
Analysis: The Tories’ Attack on Nature is Radicalising Birdwatchers
Clare Hymer
Are we going to see AK47-wielding RSPB paramilitaries? Perhaps not, but that doesn’t mean conservationists aren’t getting serious.
Report: Animal Rebellion Activists on Why They’re Emptying Supermarkets of Milk to Save the Climate
Sophie K Rosa
Animal Rebellion is mid-way through a two-week direct action campaign that claims to have emptied supermarket shelves of milk, in a bid to force the government to support a just transition away from animal agriculture. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Report: Could ‘Don’t Pay’ Pull It Off?
Sophie K Rosa
A new, viral campaign is encouraging people to cancel their direct debits if the government fails to act on the cost of living crisis. It’s a longshot, but the organisers fancy their chances. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Direct Action is Just What the Doctor Ordered
Moya Lothian-McLean
From anti-raids blockades to arms factory occupations, direct action is on the rise. That can only be a good thing, writes Moya Lothian-McLean.
Report: After Years of Campaigning Against an Israeli Weapons Factory, It Was Direct Action That Shut It Down
Rivkah Brown
On Monday, Elbit Systems announced the sale of its Oldham factory. Over years, local activists had been gradually building momentum for the campaign – until a direct action group turbocharged it. Rivkah Brown reports.
Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm
From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]
Novara FM: NO ONE WAY WORKS: Political Organisation for the 21st Century
Rodrigo Nunes joins James Butler to throw light on left melancholia and the future of political organisation.
Report: We Are Occupying an Israeli-Owned Arms Factory to Protest Zionist Settler Colonialism
An activist occupying an arms factory in Leicester
An activist occupying an Israeli-owned arms factory in Leicester speaks to Sophie K Rosa about the importance of direct action in opposing Zionist settler colonialism.
Novara FM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.
International: Locked Down But Not Out: 15,000 Sign Up to Rent Strike Campaign in Spain
Coordinadora de Vivienda de Madrid
Despite the country having become a pandemic hotspot with over 18,000 deaths, Spanish landlords are continuing to force evictions upon people who are unable to make rental payments, or who are forced to squat by long waiting lists. But tenants' unions and mutual aid groups are fighting back.